James Murdoch, former chairman of News International, faces criticism over phone hacking at the News of the World in a report due out from the select committee on culture, media and sport. Photograph: Rex Features James Murdoch will be criticised by MPs investigating phone hacking on Tuesday, but their assessment of his conduct is expected to [...]
Former News International lawyer Tom Crone, who accused Rupert Murdoch of ‘shameful’ behaviour. Photograph: Geoff Caddick/AFP/Getty Images Rupert Murdoch betrayed us, say former staff Former senior employees quick to challenge statements made by the media mogul at the Leveson inquiry guardian.co.uk, Friday 27 April 2012 20.55 BST Article history The Murdoch empire’s former employees have not [...]
James Murdoch has been giving evidence to the Leveson inquiry about the day he and Rebekah Brooks arrived at the Independent office. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Share86 Simon Kelner guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 24 April 2012 16.57 BST Article history As far as I recall – yes, I think that’s the phrase – it was late afternoon and I [...]
Jeremy Hunt is satisfied he behaved with complete propriety during the BSkyB bid, aides say. Photograph: David Gadd/Allstar/Sportsphoto Ltd Jeremy Hunt faces calls to resign over BSkyB claims Culture secretary used secret channel to pass information to James Murdoch on BSkyB bid, it is alleged at Leveson inquiry Patrick Wintour and Lisa O’Carroll guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 24 April 2012 [...]
Tom Watson’s book Dial M for Murdoch, co-written with Martin Hickman, looks at the relationship between NI and UK politicians and police. Photograph: AFP/Getty How Tom Watson came under pressure to halt his campaign against hacking From Dial M for Murdoch, which looks into the relationship between UK politicians, police and News Internationa The Guardian, Friday [...]
Leveson inquiry appearance … News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch is scheduled to answer questions on Wednesday. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Rupert Murdoch is to give evidence to the Leveson inquiry into phone hacking and media ethics next week, with a day and a half set aside for the News Corporation founder. Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corp, is [...]
James Murdoch‘s resignation as chairman of BSkyB comes ahead of a cross-party committee report and his appearance later this month at the Leveson inquiry. Photograph: Warren Allott/AFP/Getty Images It was the sacrifice that James Murdoch hoped he would not have to make. BSkyB was a business he loved, a growing broadcaster in an otherwise pressurised industry, where he spent [...]
James Murdoch, who is said to be determined to retain his position at the head of BSkyB. Photograph: Miguel Villagran/Getty Images Ofcom steps up test of James Murdoch‘s fitness to keep BSkyB role Media regulator’s Project Apple examines phone-hacking evidence to decide on 39-year-old’s stewardship Ofcom has stepped up its investigation into whether James Murdoch is a “fit and proper” person to [...]
Phone hacking: James Murdoch has told a parliamentary committee he did not read a crucial email indicating phone hacking went beyond one News of the World reporter. Photograph: Reuters James Murdoch: I didn’t read crucial phone-hacking email News International boss was sent email in 2008 showing practice went beyond rogue reporter Fresh questions about the [...]
“It will be James,” said Rupert Murdoch. Photograph: David Moir/Reuters James Murdoch: CEO performance by numbers One analysis suggests that James Murdoch was the worst performing Sky chief executive out of five. Here’s the numbers. reddit this Comments (0) Dan Sabbagh guardian.co.uk, Monday 28 November 2011 18.06 GMT Article history James Murdoch first burst onto the [...]
BSkyB Chairman James Murdoch faces a shareholder rebellion on Tuesday Photograph: David Moir / Reuters/Reuters James Murdoch faces growing list of rebels James Murdoch faces a growing list of investors prepared to vote him off BSkyB’s board after Legal & General joined the ranks of rebels reddit this Simon Bowers guardian.co.uk, Sunday 27 November 2011 18.57 [...]
James Murdoch‘s departures come as he relocates from London to New York. Photograph: David Cheskin/PA James Murdoch remains executive chairman of News International but leaves board of NGN, the firm subject to civil lawsuits over phone hacking reddit this Dan Sabbagh guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 23 November 2011 14.37 GMT Article history James Murdoch has stepped down from [...]
James and Rupert Murdoch: trapped in a soap that can distract from the real issues. Photograph: Sang Tan/AP Forget the Murdoch family drama – media power needs checking Beyond the soap opera of the News Corp succession, we must remember we got here because one group got too powerful reddit this Comments (40) Dan [...]
James Murdoch is preparing to concede that News Corporation should have acted faster over the phone hacking scandal. Photograph: Miguel Villagran/Getty James Murdoch prepares to face MPs over phone hacking News Corp boss is preparing to concede that company should have taken further action over allegations earlier reddit this Dan Sabbagh guardian.co.uk, Sunday 6 November 2011 [...]
James Murdoch testifying to the Commons culture, media and sport committee in July. Photograph: Parbul/AFP/Getty Images Analysis: Publication of warning to NI bosses tells the story of how secret payoff evolved reddit this David Leigh guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 2 November 2011 19.49 GMT Article history Reporters were riveted this week by a rare publication: [...]
Elisabeth and James Murdoch at the Cheltenham festival in 2010: Vanity Fair is to claim the siblings, their brother Lachlan and half-sister Prudence discussed succession to the family media empire with a therapist. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images Murdochs ‘discussed News Corp succession with family therapist’ James Murdoch was to be groomed for top job [...]
Labour MP John McDonnell has challenged the government to disclose details about alleged meetings with the Murdochs to discuss the BBC licence fee freeze. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA reddit this John Plunkett guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 26 October 2011 16.13 BST Article history John McDonnell MP calls for more details about ministerial meetings with News Corporation before licence [...]
James Murdoch‘s future is hanging in the balance after News Corp‘s shareholders lodged a massive protest vote. Photograph: David Cheskin/PA News Corp shareholders lodge protest vote against James and Lachlan Murdoch following media company’s annual meeting reddit this Dominic Rushe guardian.co.uk, Monday 24 October 2011 23.28 BST Article history James Murdoch’s future at News Corporation looks [...]
Phone hacking: James Murdoch recalled by MPs Phone hacking: James Murdoch has been recalled to give more evidence to MPs. Photograph: PA News Corp boss to face fresh questions about whether he knew News of the World hacking went further than one reporter reddit this James Robinson guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 13 September 2011 12.48 BST Article [...]
Phone hacking: police make further arrest Police from Operation Weeting investigating phone hacking at the News of the World have arrested a man at his home. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Detectives to question 35-year-old man on conspiracy to intercept voicemail messages reddit this Sandra Laville, crime correspondent guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 7 September 2011 09.19 BST [...]
Phone hacking: James Murdoch faces second grilling by MPs James Murdoch said he stood by his earlier testimony to the Commons select committee. Photograph: Miguel Villagran/Getty Images Murdoch to be asked to clarify whether he knew of key email that indicated phone hacking went beyond a ‘rogue reporter’ reddit this Amelia Hill guardian.co.uk, Tuesday [...]
Labour’s proposals would prevent Rupert Murdoch renewing his BSkyB bid until the outcome of the Leveson inquiry. Photograph: Louis Lanzano/AP Labour is trying to secure cross-party support for an emergency change in the law to prevent News Corporation from renewing its bid to take full ownership of BSkyB. In a move designed to capitalise on the embarrassment [...]
Mainstream media often dismisses talk of conspiracy as silly – yet in the case of News of the World, a vast criminal conspiracy was shown to have existed [EPA] In the last month, we have seen one engrossing news event follow another in quick succession. On July 5th, The Guardian revealed that the News of the World had [...]
James Murdoch giving evidence to the culture, media and sport select committee last month over the News of the World phone-hacking affair. Photograph: PA Evidence received by the Commons culture, media and sport committee contains “devastating revelations” about phone hacking at the News of the World, Labour MP Tom Watson said on Tuesday. Watson, the [...]
The News of the World‘s former royal correspondent, Clive Goodman, who was jailed over phone hacking. A letter from him claims phone hacking was widely discussed at the paper. Photograph: Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images The News of the World’s former royal correspondent, Clive Goodman, who was jailed over phone hacking. A letter from him claims [...]
Simon Hughes: hoping to ‘get to the bottom of what happened during this dark period in British journalism’. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian The Liberal Democrat MP, Simon Hughes, is to sue News Internationalover phone hacking at the News of the World, he confirmed on Thursday. Hughes told the Evening Standard: “It is important now that all [...]
James Murdoch gives evidence to MPs on phone hacking. Photograph: Parbul/AFP/Getty Images James Murdoch is expected to explain within the next 24 hours why he did not mislead a parliamentary select committee investigating phone hacking at the News of the World. He has until Thursday to reply to a list of detailed questions asked by [...]
“Hold on, aren’t you Andy Coulson? I’m not sure you’re an appropriate choice for this role.” Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA Inappropriate payments Bribes. Bribes, bribes, bribes. An inappropriate payment would be if your aunt wrote you a cheque but made it out to “Fitty McHotpants”. If you give a police officer money for confidential information, that’s [...]
Elisabeth Murdoch will not join the board of News Corp after suggesting the move would be ‘inappropriate’. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Elisabeth Murdoch will not be joining the board of her father Rupert Murdoch‘s News Corporation conglomerate, despite expectations that she would do so. The company said in a statement that she had suggested [...]
Tom Watson in Westminster: ‘There’s a sense of relief’ Photograph: David Levene A month ago, Tom Watson received word that the Guardian was about to expose the hacking of Milly Dowler’s phone by the News of the World. With 72 hours to go, he cleared his diary; a few days later, he was averaging three [...]
Stuart Kuttner (left) with Sara and Michael Payne during the Sarah’s Law campaign. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA Stuart Kuttner, the public face of the News of the World and its most vocal public defender for 22 years, has been arrested by police investigating allegations of phone hacking and of bribing police officers to leak sensitive information. [...]
David Cameron is facing growing pressure over his appointment of Andy Coulson. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/AFP/Getty Images David Cameron is facing growing pressure this weekend over his hiring of Andy Coulson after the Labour leadership demanded to know if the former News of the World editor ever saw documents inside Downing Street that should have been available [...]
Glenn Mulcaire said he was ‘effectively employed’ by the News of the World from 2002 to 2007. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator at the centre of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, has said that he only ever acted on instructions from his employers. The day after revelations that Sara Payne‘s [...]
Lord Justice Leveson, appointed by David Cameron to look into the fallout from the phone-hacking scandal, warned yesterday that he may not be able to complete the first part of the inquiry within the planned timescale of a year because its goals had been widened “quite substantially”. Senior parliamentarians said it was possible the full inquiry, [...]
Sarah Payne was murdered by Roy Whiting in 2000. The mobile phone details of her mother, Sara, have been found in Glenn Mulcaire‘s notes. Photograph: PA Sara Payne, whose eight-year-old daughter Sarah was abducted and murdered in July 2000, has been told by Scotland Yard that they have found evidence to suggest she was targeted [...]
George Osborne has attended 16 meetings since the 2010 general election at which News International executives were present. Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA George Osborne met Rebekah Brooks on five occasions in the year following the 2010 general election, according to figures released on Tuesday afternoon, that show how the chancellor cultivated relationships with senior figures at News [...]
DPP was warned hacking was rife at Murdoch paper By Oliver Wright, Whitehall EditorPA/GETTY The Director of Public Prosecutions, Lord Macdonald, left, and, right: Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney General ENLARGE The former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Lord Macdonald was warned by his own employees as far back as 2006 that there [...]
How Would Murdoch’s Downfall Affect Israel? Don’t Ask the US Media by JAMES M. WALL on JULY 25, 2011 JTA columnist Ron Kampeas has been a lone voice in sounding the alarm to his Jewish readers: “Pro-Israel leaders in the United States, Britain and Australia are warily watching the unfolding of the phone-hacking scandal that is threatening to [...]
Rupert Murdoch: Intellectual terrorism by PAUL J. BALLES on JULY 25, 2011 The past week’s news has been dominated by reports of scandals in Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. As journalist Ted Newcomen points out, there’s more to the story: The latest revelations in the UK about phone hacking, bribing the police, and frightening political leaders are just [...]
Robbie Williams: Scotland Yard told his solicitor that a number of his clients were referred to in Glenn Mulcaire‘s documents. Photograph: Luke Macgregor/Reuters Now it’s the turn of lawyers and the legal process to be sucked into the phone-hacking vortex. The Law Society has even suggested justice itself is under threat, implying messages could have been [...]
The Wall Street Journal could have done a better job in its Rupert Murdoch interview, its editorial committee has said. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features The Wall Street Journal “could have done a better job” when it published an interview with proprietor Rupert Murdoch in which he said News Corporation had made only “minor mistakes” in managing the phone-hacking [...]
James Murdoch and Rupert Murdoch appear on television during their questioning by the culture, media and sport select committee last week. Photograph: David Moir/Reuters 12.57pm: Here’s some coverage of phone-hacking elsewhere, some of it suggested by readers below the line. The Daily Telegraph has a report on Andy Hayman, one of the former senior Scotland Yard [...]
Vince Cable also told the BBC’s Andrew Marr show that big questions remained over the Murdoch empire’s suitability to run a UK broadcaster. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA No other media company should ever have the same influence in the UK as Rupert Murdoch‘s News Corporation, the Vince Cable has said. “There are other big media companies which could have [...]
Rupert Murdoch was accused by the Acpo president, Sir Hugh Orde, of ‘complete denial of any responsibility of his organisation’. Photograph: Louis Lanzano/AP Sir Hugh Orde, the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers,has lambasted Rupert Murdoch, saying the chairman of News Corporation had shown a complete denial of responsibility for what had gone on in his [...]
Is it the end of empire for old style media mogul Rupert Murdoch because of his cosy relationship with politicians and the police? What started as a tabloid scandal over phone hacking in the UK is now infecting his newspapers, TV stations and other interests worldwide. The costs are already enormous. Apart from the billions [...]
News International threatened to persecute the Liberal Democrats if Vince Cable did not advance its case, according to high-level sources. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA Rupert Murdoch‘s News International launched a campaign of bullying against senior Liberal Democrats in an attempt to force through the company’s bid for BSkyB, high-level sources have told the Observer. Lib Dem insiders say NI [...]
Amid the Murdoch scandal, there is the acrid smell of business as usual 21 July 2011 In Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s brilliant satire on the press, there is the moment when Lord Copper, owner of the Daily Beast, meets his new special war correspondent, William Boot, in truth an authority on wild flowers and birdsong. A [...]
Rupert Murdoch’s NewsCorp scandal is sending shock waves across the UK, as protesters reject the mogul’s denial of reponsibility for criminal behaviour within his empire [GALLO/GETTY] Embroiled in a scandal that has global implications, Rupert Murdoch’s media empire is under fire due to the ongoing fallout resulting from the News of the World scandal. But while News Corp [...]
James Murdoch said he answered questions from the Commons culture committee ‘truthfully’. Photograph: Parbul/AFP/Getty Images James Murdoch insisted on Friday night that he had answered questions “truthfully” to MPs earlier this week after two former News Internationalexecutives accused him of misleading parliament. As David Cameron suggested that News Corp shareholders may like to review the [...]
Former No 10 communications boss Andy Coulson was a witness in a 2010 trial involving Scottish politician Tommy Sheridan. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AP Andy Coulson, the prime minister’s former director of communications, is being investigated by police for allegedly committing perjury while working for David Cameron in Downing Street. The development renews pressure on the prime [...]
